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Ex-Executive Pleads Guilty in China's Tainted-Milk Case

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Loretta Chao

Updated Jan. 2, 2009 12:01 a.m. ET

BEIJING -- Families of children sickened or killed in China's tainted-milk scandal reacted angrily to state media reports that a former top dairy-company executive admitted in court she knew of the problem months before alerting authorities.

Tian Wenhua, former chairwoman of Shijiazhuang Sanlu Group Co., pleaded guilty at her trial Wednesday to charges of producing and selling fake or substandard products, according to state-run...

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